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Ask the Associate Editor: Marcel Levi

Ask the Associated Editor is a monthly series of short question and answer sessions with Associate Editors of theJournal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis(JTH). This month we feature Marcel Levi, an Associate Editor for more than a decade.

ISTH: Where are you from?
ML: Amsterdam, the Netherlands

ISTH: Where do you work? What is your job title and expertise?
ML: I am a Professor of Medicine and Dean Faculty of Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam

ISTH: What is your biggest challenge in your work?
ML: Besides the big issues keeping an eye on details, people, small successes

ISTH: What do you see as your biggest triumph in your work?
ML: I can be really happy if a single patient is doing very well or is very statisfied with his/her care. Likewise, I can really celebrate an important publication by one of my PhD students.

ISTH: What has guided your career choices?
ML: My most important mentor was Prof. Jan Wouter ten Cate. Other important people were Harry Buller and Giancarlo Agnelli.

ISTH: Who is/was the most influential person in your life and why?
ML: My father, he was my big example.

ISTH: What advice would you give to someone just beginning their career?
ML: Enjoy not only your success but also the way to your success.

ISTH: When did you become an Associate Editor of the JTH and why?
ML: More than 10 years ago, I guess. It is the most important and prestigious journal in our field.

ISTH: What is the most interesting/exciting article that you’ve seen in the JTH recently?
ML: I like all this new stuff on neutrophil extracellular traps.

ISTH: Share a memory from an ISTH Congress or other ISTH event. ML: My first congress was in 1987 in Brussels, that was a very nice experience. I also remember the ISTH congress in 1989 in Japan, where I had my first big talk. I was practicing my talk in a beautiful Japanese park during that week together with my colleague Ton Lensing, who also had a big presentation there.